Market Entry Is Not a Mood Board
Market Entry Is Not a Mood Board Why Brands Mistake Aesthetics for Infrastructure and What Credibility Actually Requires Photo: Carlos Idun In recent years, several major fashion houses have staged shows and campaigns across the African continent. Runway presentations in Dakar and Marrakech. Campaign shoots in Lagos and along the Kenyan coast. Capsule collections developed […]
The Women Who Built the Revolution
To understand what accelerating action on gender equality actually looks like, what it costs, what
Ntufi ya Ntaba, Aton Tsiba on Ritual, Touch, and a First Film
Aton Tsiba is a fashion designer by trade, but Ntufi ya Ntaba marks his debut as a filmmaker. The two facts
If This. Then That: Coffee Tables – Noguchi → Paul Ledron
If you understand why the Noguchi table endures, you’ll recognize Paul Ledron’s work. IF YOU LIKE NOGUCHI Form that sits between sculpture and use. Biomorphic walnut base, glass top, designed 1944. Eighty years in production. The appeal is material restraint and design confidence—nothing unnecessary. Isamu Noguchi designed the IN-50 coffee table in 1944 for Herman […]
The Betting Generation
The Betting Generation Inside Africa’s billion-dollar sports wagering boom and the young people driving it. Photo © Marvellous Durowaiye This is part of our ongoing coverage of African digital life—the platforms, systems, and behaviors shaping how the continent’s next generation earns, spends, and connects. Across the vibrant streets and markets of Africa’s cities from Lagos […]
The Woman Behind Dakar Fashion Week
The Woman Behind Dakar Fashion Week Adama Paris built Africa’s longest-running fashion week. Then she put it on the ocean. Adama Amanda Ndiaye, Founder of Dakar Fashion Week. Photography by Mario Epanya There are cities that host fashion weeks, and there are cities that shape them. Dakar belongs to the second kind. The most recent […]
The Trends Defining African Fashion in 2026
If 2025 marked a year of expansion for African fashion—designers embracing quiet luxury, soft
Best of Culture 2025
2025 was the year African culture stopped explaining itself. The shift was visible
Best of Fashion 2025
African fashion in 2025 was defined by intention. Across runways, campaigns, museums, and community spaces,
Nuits Balnéaires Awarded Second Latitudes Grant from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Ivorian artist Nuits Balnéaires has been named the 2025 laureate of Latitudes, an international photography programme from